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Reason is a libertarian

Libertarianism

Libertarianism is a term used by a political spectrum of Political philosophy which seek to promote individual liberty and seek to minimize or abolish the state....
monthly magazine from the Reason Foundation

Reason Foundation

The Reason Foundation is an United States nonprofit think tank founded in 1978 that also publishes Reason . Based in Los Angeles, Reason is self-described as nonpartisan and publishes a statement of values that can best be described as libertarian....
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Reason was founded in 1968 by Lanny Friedlander as a more-or-less monthly mimeographed

Mimeograph machine

The stencil duplicator or mimeograph machine is a low-cost printing press that works by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper.Along with spirit duplicators and hectographs, mimeographs were for many decades used to print short-run office work, classroom materials, and church bulletins....
publication. In 1970 it was purchased by Robert W. Poole, Manuel S. Klausner, and Tibor R. Machan

Tibor R. Machan

Tibor Richard Machan, Ph.D. , professor emeritus in the department of philosophy at Auburn University, holds the R. C. Hoiles Chair of Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business & Economics at Chapman University in Orange, California, California....
, who set it on a more regular publishing schedule. As the monthly print magazine of "free minds and free markets", it covers politics, culture, and ideas with a mix of news, analysis, commentary, and reviews.

Matt Welch

Matt Welch

Matt Welch is a journalist, blogger, pundit and a libertarian. Since 2008, he has been the editor-in-chief at the monthly libertarian journal, Reason ....
has been the magazine's editor-in-chief since 2008.

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Reason is a libertarian

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Jacob Sullum

Jacob Z. Sullum is a syndicated newspaper columnist and a Senior Editor at Reason magazine. In 2004, he received a Thomas Szasz Award.According to SourceWatch, he received money from R.J....
, Jesse Walker

Jesse Walker

Jesse Walker is managing Editing of Reason magazine. The University of Michigan alumnus has written the book Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America and maintains a blog called The Perpetual Three-Dot Column....
, Brian Doherty

Brian Doherty (journalist)

Brian Doherty is a Senior Editor at Reason magazine. He is the author of This is Burning Man ,Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement and Gun Control on Trial: Inside the Supreme Court Battle Over the Second Amendment ....
, Ronald Bailey

Ronald Bailey

Ronald Bailey is the science editor for Reason . He was born in San Antonio, Texas and raised in Washington County, Virginia, and attended the University of Virginia, where he earned a B.A....
, Radley Balko

Radley Balko

Radley Balko is an United States libertarianism writer, and speaker....
, Tim Cavanaugh

Tim Cavanaugh

Tim Cavanaugh is the Web editor of the Los Angeles Times opinion page. Prior to that, he was Web editor of Reason Magazine from 2002 to 2006 and the editor in chief of Suck.com from 1998 to 2001....
, Kerry Howley

Kerry Howley

Kerry Howley is currently a contributing editor of Reason Magazine pursuing an MFA in nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa .She first came to Reason as an intern after graduating from Georgetown University with a B.A....
, David Weigel, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Michael C. Moynihan, Damon Root, Greg Beato, Cathy Young

Cathy Young

Cathy Young is a Russian American journalist and writer. She writes columns for Reason and The Boston Globe , and is the author of two books and a number of articles....
, Jonathan Rauch

Jonathan Rauch

Jonathan Charles Rauch is an United States author, journalist and activism. After graduating from Yale University, Rauch worked at the Winston-Salem Journal in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for the National Journal magazine, and later for The Economist magazine and as a freelance writer....
, and cartoonist Peter Bagge

Peter Bagge

Peter Bagge is an award-winning United States comics artist and creator of Buddy Bradley, Hate , Neat Stuff, Martini Baton, and Sweatshop ....
. Former editors include Nick Gillespie

Nick Gillespie

Nick Gillespie is the editor of Reason.com and Reason.tv and was the editor in chief of Reason magazine from 2000 to 2008. He has written articles or been a commentator for many media outlets and edited an anthology, Choice: The Best of Reason....
, Marty Zupan

Marty Zupan

Marty Zupan is president of the Institute for Humane Studies. She joined IHS in 1989 as a vice president to help build new programs for aspiring policymakers, journalists, and filmmakers....
, and Virginia Postrel

Virginia Postrel

Virginia I. Postrel is an United States politics and culture writer of broadly libertarian, or classical liberal, views. She is best known for her two non-fiction books, The Future and Its Enemies and The Substance of Style....
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Erik Spiekermann

Erik Spiekermann

Erik Spiekermann is a Germany typography and designer. He is a professor at the University of the Arts Bremen.Spiekermann studied art history at Berlin's Free University of Berlin, funding himself by running a hot metal printing press in the basement of his house....
, the inventor of the typeface Meta

FF Meta

FF Meta is a sans-serif#Classification sans-serif typeface family designed by Erik Spiekermann. It was originally developed in 1984 as a commission for a corporate typeface for the Deutsche Bundespost , but was never adopted for use....
, headed a redesign of Reason in 2001, aiming for a look that is "cleaner, more modern, making use of the Meta typeface throughout".

In June 2004, subscribers to Reason magazine received a personalized issue that had their name, and a satellite

Satellite

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photo of their home or workplace on the cover.

The magazine has a circulation of around 60,000 and has twice been named one of the "50 best magazines" by the Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune

"The Trib" redirects here. For other newspapers with similar names, see Tribune The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company....
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In 2008, Reason's web site, , was named a Webby Award

Webby Awards

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Honoree in the magazine category.

Hit and Run

Hit & Run is Reasons group blog
Blog

A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video....
. It is maintained and written by the staff of the magazine. It was started in 2002. Former Reason Editor-in-Chief Nick Gillespie
Nick Gillespie

Nick Gillespie is the editor of Reason.com and Reason.tv and was the editor in chief of Reason magazine from 2000 to 2008. He has written articles or been a commentator for many media outlets and edited an anthology, Choice: The Best of Reason....
and Reason Web Editor Tim Cavanaugh
Tim Cavanaugh

Tim Cavanaugh is the Web editor of the Los Angeles Times opinion page. Prior to that, he was Web editor of Reason Magazine from 2002 to 2006 and the editor in chief of Suck.com from 1998 to 2001....
, both veterans of Suck.com
Suck.com

Suck.com was one of the earliest ad-supported content sites on the Internet. It featured daily editorial content on a wide variety of topics, including politics and popular culture and was targeted at Generation X....
, modeled the blog in some ways after that website: they brought along several other Suck.com writers to contribute, fostered a style in the blog matching that former website's sarcastic attitude, and even the name "Hit & Run" was taken from what had been a weekly news roundup column on Suck.com. The Reason editors referred to this co-opting of the former website as the "Suck-ification of Reason."

In 2005, Hit & Run was named as one of the best political blogs by Playboy

Playboy

Playboy is an American men's magazine, founded in Chicago, Illinois, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, which has grown into Playboy Enterprises, with a presence in nearly every medium....
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